Bryan Stevenson

He has a beautiful family.

And I know the day of his release, it's the 11th, because on the 11th of every month for the last 18 years, at 8 a.m.

exactly,

This young man calls me and he says, hey, Mr. Brian, just want you to know I'm doing great and I love you.

Every month for 18 years.

And that's the beauty that comes out of reacting, responding to injustice when we see it, abuse when we see it.

And I can't quantify that.

The value that gives my life, the joy that gives me, it's priceless as far as I'm concerned.

And I think when we hold our children that are struggling, that are in places of despair, that have been traumatized, and we look for ways to make things better, there's a return on that.

Sure.

It involves a man named Walter McMillan who was accused of killing a young white woman in Monroeville, Alabama.

And it is shocking in a lot of ways.

One of the things that was immediately fascinating to me about this case is that Monroeville, Alabama, is the community where Harper Lee grew up and wrote the story To Kill a Mockingbird.

And so Monroeville...

prides itself on being the birthplace, the home place of that story.

And so every year they put on a play, the streets are named after characters in the book.

It's a big deal.

You can go to the courthouse where they filmed the movie, scenes from the movie, and people will say, oh, you can go stand where Gregory Peck stood.

They romanticized the story of To Kill a Mockingbird.

They couldn't solve the murder.